Wigan Album

Names - back row R to L . Me, David Ellison, ?, David Heywood, Vic Sharrock

I've only just discovered wiganworld - what a treasure-trove it is! Clicked on St Stephen's and found this gem. That's me, the gormless herbert second from the right on the front row. That looks like George Leach behind the lad to my left. I think the surname of the lad next but one on my right is Bradshaw and I have a feeling that the lad on the extreme left of the front row is Stephen Parry. Ah, nostalgia - it's not what it used to be!

I too spent some time in this choir before Mr. Wilding realised what I had been trying to tell him all along which was that I couldn't sing. I think the lad to your left could be Geoffrey Dickinson and the lad to your right David Stevens. Michael Bradshaw is to his right and it is Stephen Parry at the end.

Its me alright, but Geof Dickinson was never in the choir.

I think the lad in the centre of the back row is Geof Winnard. His dad Tom?? was also in the choir.

I think yer right about Geoffrey Winnard. we were in the same class at St Stephens School.

I was born right next door, 4 St Stephens Ave, but still managed to turn up late :-) Mr Wilding was the choir master, and his wife {from Wales} was a teacher at the school, lived at the top end of Great Acre, where he used to give piano lessons, arf a crown an hour, sadly he was subjected to me turning up, even their cat ran out when I tried to play Handel's Water Music.

It's so long ago can't even pick myself out now, chances are that's me 2nd from the right front row. Other I suspect in there would be, David Lion, Victor Sharrock, I think his dad was in the choir too, I reckon that Iain Brighton was in there, maybe Donald Parry, he lived a bit further down than Vine Street, just spare land now I think. David Entwhistle is probably in there ?

By the way, some might remember the red ribbons with a little medal attached to them that some in the choir wore, they were bought by my Grandma Maud Calland of 9 Bedford Street in memory of her husband Bill Calland who died age 63 of pnuemonicosis, I wonder if they still have them / wear them ?

A lot of water's gone under the bridge since those Thursday night choir practice.

Wasn't it Rev Wiffen in the late 50's early 60's ? I recall him being a decent bloke.

I wonder where all the lads in the photo are now, how their lives turned out.